Re: How to change locale

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:11:46PM +0100 or thereabouts, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:55:35PM +0100, Germano Rizzo wrote:
> > Hi!
> >     how can I change 'on the fly' my locale? it's italian now, but I would
> > like to be able to switch it to, say, en to take snapshot, or to any other
> > languages to verify that I've installed correctly the po files...
> >     Thanx,
> >         Mano :)
> 
> setenv LANG en
> 
> or in bash
> LANGUAGE=en
> export LANGUAGE
> 
> then run your new program

Even faster, if you just want to run one program, is to do all in one
line:

LANG=foo name-of-program

$ LANG=ja_JP.eucJP same-gnome
$ LANG=fr gnome-help-browser

etc. (the $ being the prompt, of course)

Telsa